Invasion Timer, August 25 Item Changes, Blue Posts, Artifact Power, Video Games Live

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Addon - Legion Invasion Timer
The Legion is almost here and invasions have really ramped up! If you haven't been using them to level your alts and earn the achievements, now is the time!

The Legion Invasion Timer addon is helpful for keeping track of the invasion timers, Nethershard tracking, warnings, and more!

August 25 Item Changes

Hi friends, I wanted to take a few minutes to update you on some late-breaking changes that we have decided to make. Since these changes affect things that aren’t technically live yet, they have not been included in the hotfix notes, but we wanted you to be aware in the interest of transparency.

First, we deliberately avoided exclusive appearances when we made Legion’s legendary items. Given that these items are rare and subject to randomness, it doesn’t feel appropriate for these items to be the only source of an appearance. There are three of them where we missed the mark: Mother Shahraz’s Seduction, Estel, and Ekowraith. These items will be changing to share appearances with other items that are more readily accessible shortly after launch.

Additionally, we are making some changes to trinkets to increase Discipline Priest usability and prevent a few edge cases we aren’t happy with. All of these changes have already been made (also affecting beta servers).

One of the goals for Discipline Priests is to feel like they take the best of both Light and Shadow, and we (eventually) want to make both damage and healing role trinkets useful. If you got a trinket as Holy or as Shadow, it should also be useful as Discipline. We’ve applied modifiers to some DPS-role trinkets to make them usable by Disc without being crazy good in situations where area damage is very attractive, and Disc is now considered both a healer and a ranged DPS specialization for purposes of trinket eligibility.

We also identified a few trinkets that are usable by specs we didn’t intend when the item is traded. We’ve added some additional rules to those trinkets, as follows:

Obelisk of the Void – Healers are also eligible for this item, but the Use effect will fail if you are not a healer or ranged DPS specialization.

Gift of Radiance – the Use effect of this trinket will deal damage for anyone, but the stun effect will fail if you are not a tank specialization.

Figurehead of the Naglfar, Moonlit Prism – the Use effect will fail if you are not a ranged DPS specialization.

Moonlit Prism – the Use effect stack rate is now throttled at 1 stack per 0.4 seconds.

We have updated these tooltips to be more correct in 7.1, to show where additional spec enforcement has been added.

Thank you, and enjoy Legion!

edit: clarified Discipline is both RDPS and Healer for trinkets

Clarifying a little more on Discipline, since a few changes are happening at around the same time that are best understood in tandem with each other.

As mentioned above, Discipline will be eligible for caster DPS trinkets in addition to healer trinkets. Atonement will continue to proc from trinkets and other non-class damage events (there may be exceptions where needed). It has also been updated to proc from all schools of magic (previously only Holy, Shadow, and Fire).

However, the amount of damage done by many caster trinket damage procs will generally be quite overpowered if added to Disc's damage and fed into Atonement (the trinket would be doing the same amount of damage it was balanced for on a DPS player, plus a large amount of free healing). Indeed, this was borne out on beta. We had intended to reduce the proc rate of such trinkets for Discipline early in beta. However, due to a bug, this didn't take effect, and many Discipline Priests in dungeon and raid tests were using caster trinkets for a large amount of free damage and Atonement healing (especially trinkets that did AoE damage, which is usually not allowed to power Atonement).

While we recently fixed the bug, we decided that nerfing the damage from DPS trinkets was preferable to nerfing the proc rate (so the damage they provide would not be too sporadic). This should allow caster DPS trinkets to work for Disc and work with Atonement, but not be a clearly superior choice to healer trinkets. In addition, we are reviewing whether Disc's damage has to be increased overall to account for the bugfix late in testing.

One additional note:
Bloodthirsty Instinct - this trinket procs from ranged and melee attacks, despite the tooltip stating only melee attacks. It is a valid trinket drop for Beastmaster and Marksman hunters.

Ask Mr. Robot - Artifact Power Schedule
Ask Mr. Robot put together a nice graphic that shows how small of an impact keeping your Off-Spec Artifact advanced has on your progression.

Blue Posts

FEEDBACK: Legendaries!
We applied a hotfix today to adjust the power of multiple Legion legendary items with the intent of leveling off the power they provide. If you've been concerned a legendary item is too high or too low, please check again. Thank you for all of the feedback, it has been tremendously helpful! (Official Forums)

Blue Tweets

Pet Battles
Any chance we could get the 1000 pet limit raised - esp with Legion coming up?
An item in Legion increases it to 1500 (Muffinus)

Poll - Legion Faction Choice
Our friends at Strawpoll are running a poll on your faction choice for Legion.

Video Games Live Concert at Gamescom 2016
Video Games Live performed lots of Blizzard music at Gamescom!

[sharkk121]

And why exactly are those blue posts not showing up in the blue tracker?

[Gaucho-]

Asking for legendary item feedback 4 days before release. What were they doing during beta? :/

[Deleted]

Asking for legendary item feedback 4 days before release. What were they doing during beta? :/

As shown with the Hunter and Warlock feedback problems: nothing. (Well, self-masturbating with the incredible locations they've made :P)

[chaud]

And why exactly are those blue posts not showing up in the blue tracker?

Still a few remaining issues from when they changed the site design. Will get it fixed soon.

[Xandrigity]

Did an addon really need to be created for invasions. It's not hard to figure out they reset on the odd hour.

[Outlandish]

Did an addon really need to be created for invasions. It's not hard to figure out they reset on the odd hour.

ROFL. This line of thinking makes me laugh because it's in the vain of the world revolves around me. Depending on your time zone it could be every even OR odd hour. What should be said is every X hours, not even or odd.

[MalcanAlunza]

ROFL. This line of thinking makes me laugh because it's in the vain of the world revolves around me. Depending on your time zone it could be every even OR odd hour. What should be said is every X hours, not even or odd.

Yep, every even hour in my time zone.

[Xandrigity]

ROFL. This line of thinking makes me laugh because it's in the vain of the world revolves around me. Depending on your time zone it could be every even OR odd hour. What should be said is every X hours, not even or odd.

The points is it resets every two hours, even or odd is irrelevant. Point still stands. Resets ever other hour. Time is hard stuff I guess.

[Romobama]

Anyone else having an issue opening the link to the Ask Mr Robot graphic? I keep getting a white page saying 'Service is Unavalable'

[Galathir]

Anyone else having an issue opening the link to the Ask Mr Robot graphic? I keep getting a white page saying 'Service is Unavalable'

Good, then I'm not the only one. I already thought it was being blocked by my work PC somehow.

P.s. After loading for about 5 minutes it worked now.

[shadowblazr]

Are invasions sticking around after the launch? Seems kinda dumb to make an add on if they're only going to be around for a handful of days.

[fata13xception]

That's a really unfortunate decision, tbh.

Though I understand, I'd rather have those legendaries remain unique in appearance to give people more reason to put effort towards obtaining them... now AND after subsequent expansions make Legion's content/gear stats obsolete.

Legendaries should be special beyond stats... and difficulty in obtaining something special is a good thing!

[babyback]

Are invasions sticking around after the launch? Seems kinda dumb to make an add on if they're only going to be around for a handful of days.

No they aren't. The only thing you'll be able to do from the pre-patch after Legion goes live is the Broken Shore event.

[Arcyne]

Uhhh.. Isn't Obelisk of the void just Rune of Power under a new name? So other classes have to deal with RoP now too?

[coprax]

"These items will be changing to share appearances with other items that are more readily accessible shortly after launch."


Seriously? They deliberately remove a unique legendary skin now and replace it with a crappy reused skin?
What is wrong with those guys? Unbelievable...

[Deleted]

Don't give players access to unique appearances that are difficult to get. Always thinking about the players, Blizzard! Well played!

...and I was thinking you were only being cheap on additional designs for the legendaries... MAN WAS I WRONG!

[smaktat]

I don't understand the AskMrRobot graph.

[Deleted]

Did an addon really need to be created for invasions. It's not hard to figure out they reset on the odd hour.

I've stopped asking that question when i saw there were addons for Archaeology , apparently it's too hard to follow blinking lights so people needed extra help, just sad really.

[qactuar]

I've stopped asking that question when i saw there were addons for Archaeology , apparently it's too hard to follow blinking lights so people needed extra help, just sad really.

Pretty much every addon's existence can be summed up with the passive-aggressive 'apparently x is too hard'.